Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life
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- IDLING IN ITALY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- IDLING IN ITALY
- CHAPTER I LITERARY ITALY
- CHAPTER II LITERARY ITALY (CONTINUED)
- CHAPTER III GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO—POET, PILOT, AND PIRATE
- CHAPTER IV THE FUTURIST SCHOOL OF ITALIAN WRITERS
- CHAPTER V GIOVANNI PAPINI AND THE FUTURISTIC LITERARY MOVEMENT IN ITALY
- CHAPTER VI TWO NOISY ITALIAN SCHOOLMASTERS
- CHAPTER VII IMPROVISIONAL ITALIAN LITERATURE OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY
- CHAPTER VIII FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER IX THE LITERARY MAUSOLEUM OF SAMUEL BUTLER
- CHAPTER X SAINTS AND SINNERS
- CHAPTER XI WOMAN'S CAUSE IS MAN'S: THEY RISE OR SINK TOGETHER ...
- CHAPTER XII POSTBELLUM VAGARIES
- CHAPTER XIII WORLD CONVALESCENCE
- CHAPTER XIV BANQUETS AND PERSONALITIES
- CHAPTER XV SENTIMENTALITY AND THE MALE
- CHAPTER XVI THE PLAY INSTINCT IN CHILDREN
- CHAPTER XVII "IF A MAN WALKETH IN THE NIGHT, HE STUMBLETH BUT IF HE WALKETH IN THE DAY HE SEETH THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD"
- CHAPTER XVIII THE AMERICAN EAGLE CHANGES HIS PERCH
- Footnotes
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